Texting while driving

dar512 · 08-26-2009, 09:10 AM

Evidently this public service announcement is showing in the UK warning against texting while driving. There's been some outcry that it is too graphic.

I'm thinking that if you're dumb enough to text and drive, then maybe you need something this blatant.

Just discovered while preparing to make the link that youtube has put an age limit on the video.

monster · 08-26-2009, 09:33 AM

Won't work, though. Teenagers know that they're better at texting at that and can do it safely -not like that stupid bitch.

xoxoxoBruce · 08-26-2009, 10:43 AM

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Teenagers know that they're better at texting at that and can do it safely

And invincible.

toranokaze · 08-26-2009, 10:44 AM

And are criminals now.

wolf · 08-26-2009, 10:48 AM

I got that video via something called EMStube, which has a superior collection of grimmy accident videos.

Shawnee123 · 08-26-2009, 01:43 PM

Ugh...I see it all the time, the texting while driving. I'm pretty sure the kid who hit me was either texting or yakking.

I have become quite wary while driving...though I have always tried to be a careful driver, I find myself almost freaking myself out "I know he's going to do a sudden lane change...why is she drifting into my lane...are they going to stop?"

Most of us remember thinking we were invincible, reducing the chance that such a video would help, but if even a few young people got a little scared, then pressured their friends into driving sans phone...

Other than that, I'd like to completely abolish cell phones. Wipe them off the face of the earth...I hate them! [/oldfogey]

dar512 · 08-26-2009, 02:04 PM

Oh, I like my cell phone well enough. It's great for when you're meeting up somewhere and so forth. But I don't use it while I'm driving neither texting nor talking. If someone calls they have to wait until I get where I'm going.

jinx · 08-26-2009, 04:58 PM

It's not nearly as dangerous as the huffing while driving that was so popular with teens a few years ago...

dar512 · 08-26-2009, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by jinx

It's not nearly as dangerous as the huffing while driving that was so popular with teens a few years ago...

What's huffing?

Undertoad · 08-26-2009, 09:19 PM

Inhalants such as paint cans, solvents, cans of air etc. Stupidest drug use ever.

glatt · 08-26-2009, 09:28 PM

"I resemble that remark."

tw · 08-26-2009, 09:39 PM

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Originally Posted by dar512

Evidently this public service announcement is showing in the UK warning against texting while driving. There's been some outcry that it is too graphic.

Reality is too graphic. We should ban it.

Nothing in it is 'too graphic'. Amazing how so many want to be so protected from reality.

But then most teenagers *know* they are better. Amazing how many only learn after THEY make the mistake. And then some still do not.

I also want to see the dead bicyclist because the car windows were tinted. What is essential to have saved the bicyclist - too many of us even deny the need to ban windows tinting. Denial extends beyond teenagers.

classicman · 08-26-2009, 10:01 PM

atta boy - where ya been?

monster · 08-27-2009, 08:57 AM

front and front-side window tinting is banned here

piercehawkeye45 · 08-28-2009, 11:36 AM

From who've I talked too, more kids my age (19-23) would rather drink and drive then text and drive. Honestly I really don't know what I would consider more dangerous....

08-26-2009, 09:10 AM	#1
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Texting while driving Evidently this public service announcement is showing in the UK warning against texting while driving. There's been some outcry that it is too graphic. I'm thinking that if you're dumb enough to text and drive, then maybe you need something this blatant. Just discovered while preparing to make the link that youtube has put an age limit on the video. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

08-26-2009, 09:33 AM	#2
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	Won't work, though. Teenagers know that they're better at texting at that and can do it safely -not like that stupid bitch. __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

08-26-2009, 10:44 AM	#4
toranokaze I'm still a jerk Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Little Mexico Posts: 1,817	And are criminals now. __________________ "Without deviation from the norm progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa It is the ignorance of ignorance that lead to the death of knowledge The Virgin Mary does not weep for her son, for he is in paradise. She weeps for the world , for we are in suffering.

08-26-2009, 10:48 AM	#5
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	I got that video via something called EMStube, which has a superior collection of grimmy accident videos. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

08-26-2009, 01:43 PM	#6
Shawnee123 Why, you're a regular Alfred E Einstein, ain't ya? Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 21,206	Ugh...I see it all the time, the texting while driving. I'm pretty sure the kid who hit me was either texting or yakking. I have become quite wary while driving...though I have always tried to be a careful driver, I find myself almost freaking myself out "I know he's going to do a sudden lane change...why is she drifting into my lane...are they going to stop?" Most of us remember thinking we were invincible, reducing the chance that such a video would help, but if even a few young people got a little scared, then pressured their friends into driving sans phone... Other than that, I'd like to completely abolish cell phones. Wipe them off the face of the earth...I hate them! [/oldfogey] __________________ A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones who need the advice. --Bill Cosby

08-26-2009, 02:04 PM	#7
dar512 dar512 is now Pete Zicato Join Date: May 2003 Location: Chicago suburb Posts: 4,968	Oh, I like my cell phone well enough. It's great for when you're meeting up somewhere and so forth. But I don't use it while I'm driving neither texting nor talking. If someone calls they have to wait until I get where I'm going. __________________ "Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain." -- Friedrich Schiller

08-26-2009, 04:58 PM	#8
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	It's not nearly as dangerous as the huffing while driving that was so popular with teens a few years ago... __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

08-26-2009, 09:19 PM	#10
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Inhalants such as paint cans, solvents, cans of air etc. Stupidest drug use ever.

08-26-2009, 09:28 PM	#11
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	"I resemble that remark." Attached Images

08-26-2009, 10:01 PM	#13
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	atta boy - where ya been? __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

08-27-2009, 08:57 AM	#14
monster I hear them call the tide Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Perpetual Chaos Posts: 30,852	front and front-side window tinting is banned here __________________ The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity Amelia Earhart

08-28-2009, 11:36 AM	#15
piercehawkeye45 Franklin Pierce Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,695	From who've I talked too, more kids my age (19-23) would rather drink and drive then text and drive. Honestly I really don't know what I would consider more dangerous.... __________________ I like my perspectives like I like my baseball caps: one size fits all.

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